Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Job 6:16
In the winter the torrents are black and turbid with melting snow. There is plenty of ice in winter in the upper parts of Edom.
In the winter the torrents are black and turbid with melting snow. There is plenty of ice in winter in the upper parts of Edom.
Verse Job 6:16. _BLACKISH BY REASON OF THE ICE_] He represents the waters as being sometimes suddenly frozen, their foam being turned into the semblance of snow or hoar-frost: when the heat comes, the...
WHICH ARE BLACKISH - Or, rather, which are turbid. The word used here (קדרים _qoderı̂ym_) means to be turbid, foul, or muddy, spoken of a torrent, and then to be of a dusky color, to be dark-colored,...
CHAPTER S 6-7 JOB'S ANSWER _ 1. His Despair justified by the greatness of his suffering (Job 6:1)_ 2. He requests to be cut off (Job 6:8) 3. He reproacheth his friends (Job 6:14) 4. The misery of...
JOB'S SORROWFUL DISAPPOINTMENT IN HIS FRIENDS. He begins by citing a proverb. The despairing man who is slipping from religion, looks for help and sympathy from his friends. The friends, however, have...
Job's sorrowful disappointment at the position taken up towards him by his three friends Job had freely expressed his misery in ch. 3, believing that the sympathies of his friends were entirely with...
_are blackish_ Rather, ARE BLACK, that is, turbid. _is hid_ lit. _hides itself_, that is, dissolves. Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow-fa...
MY BRETHREN HAVE DEALT DECEITFULLY— Bishop Lowth observes, that though the metaphor from overflowing waters is very frequent in other sacred writers, yet the author of the book of Job never touches up...
WHICH ARE BLACKISH— Houbigant reads it, _Which, after they have been congealed by the frost, and after,_ &c....
3. Bitter disappointment from his friends, who are unreasonably hard (Job 6:14-23) TEXT 6:14-23 14 TO HIM THAT IS READY TO FAINT KINDNESS _should be showed_ FROM HIS FRIEND; Even to him that forsak...
_WHICH ARE BLACKISH BY REASON OF THE ICE, AND WHEREIN THE SNOW IS HID:_ Blackish - literally, Go as a mourner in black clothing (Psalms 35:14, end). A vivid and poetic image to picture the stream, tu...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 6 JOB REPLIES TO ELIPHAZ’S...
There are some streams that travellers can always trust. The water is always plentiful, even in the driest weather. When the travellers arrive at these streams, there is water for them. And there is w...
הַ קֹּדְרִ֥ים מִנִּי ־קָ֑רַח עָ֝לֵ֗ימֹו יִתְעַלֶּם...
VIII. MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING Job 6:1; Job 7:1 Job SPEAKS WORST to endure of all things is the grief that preys on a man's own heart because no channel outside self is provided for the hot strea...
“A DECEITFUL BROOK” Job 6:1 The burden of Job's complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his friends. They had accused him of speaking rashly, but they had not measured the greatness of his pain,...
Job's answer is a magnificent and terrible outcry. First, he speaks of his pain as a protest against the method of Eliphaz. His reply is not to the deduction which Eliphaz' argument suggested, but rat...
Them. They shall run from a less to a greater evil. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "Those who respected me, have now fallen upon me, like snow or ice; (17) as when it is consumed with heat, it is no longer...
(14) В¶ To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. (15) My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they...
Job's Answer to Eliphaz I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week we took a look at Eliphaz' speech to Job. 1. Eliphaz based the authority for what he said to Job upon the visitation of an angel. 2. But, we al...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
WHICH ARE BLACKISH BY REASON OF THE ICE,.... When frozen over, they look of a blackish colour, and is what is called a black frost; and these either describe Job and his domestics, as some h think who...
Which are blackish by reason of the ice, [and] wherein the snow is hid: Ver. 16. _Which are blackish by reason of the ice_] Or frost, a black frost we call it, which deceiveth those that tread upon i...
_Which are blackish_, &c. Which in winter, when the traveller neither needs nor desires it, are full of water congealed by the frost. _Wherein the snow is hid_ Under which the water from snow, which f...
which are blackish, turbid, dark, foul, BY REASON OF THE ICE, as the melting ice is carried down by the spring floods, AND WHEREIN THE SNOW IS HID, seeming to offer a solid surface to stand on, but in...
JOB CRITICIZES ELIPHAZ FOR HIS CONDUCT...
JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ (vv.1-30) It is remarkable that Job, being in the painful condition he was, was still able to reply in such capable and stirring language to Eliphaz. He knew that Eliphaz had...
14-30 In his prosperity Job formed great expectations from his friends, but now was disappointed. This he compares to the failing of brooks in summer. Those who rest their expectations on the creatur...
Which in winter, when the traveller neither needs nor desires it, are full of water, then congealed by the frost. WHEREIN THE SNOW IS HID; either, 1. Under which the water, made of snow, which former...
Job 6:16 dark H6937 (H8802) ice H7140 snow H7950 vanishes H5956 (H8691)...
CONTENTS: Job's answer to Eliphaz. His appeal for pity. CHARACTERS: God, Eliphaz, Job. CONCLUSION: No one can judge another justly without much prayer for divine guidance. Affliction does not necess...
Job 6:4. _The poison_ of the arrows absorbed his spirits. In 1822, when Campbel the missionary travelled in South Africa, a bushman shot one of his men in the back with a poisoned arrow. He languished...
_My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook._ THE USES AND LESSONS OF DISAPPOINTMENT The meaning of this passage is, that Job had been disappointed. He hoped his friends would have comforted him i...
_To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend._ A MESSAGE TO DOUBTERS Such is the rendering of the Authorised Version; but, unfortunately, it is a rendering which misses almost enti...
_But Job answered and said._ JOB’S ANSWER TO ELIPHAZ We must come upon grief in one of two ways and Job seems to have come upon grief in a way that is to be deprecated. He came upon it late in life....
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 6:1 Job responds to Eliphaz’s words of “comfort.” ⇐ ⇔...
_JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_ I. Justifies his complaint (Job 6:2). “O that my grief were thoroughly weighed,” &c. Job’s case neither apprehended nor appreciated by his friends. Desires fervently that his...
EXPOSITION Job 6:1. and 7. contain Job's reply to Eliphaz. In Job 6:1. he confines himself to three points: (1) a justification of his "grief"—_i.e._ of his vexation and impatience (Job 6:1); (2)
So Job responds to him and he says, Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamities laid in the balances together! (Job 6:1-2) Now, of course, picturesque, you got to see it. In those days...
1 Chronicles 11:22; Deuteronomy 22:1; Deuteronomy 22:3; Ezekiel 1:22;...
Which — Which in winter when the traveller neither needs nor desires it, are full of water congealed by the frost. Snow — Under which the water from snow, which formerly fell, and afterward was dissol...